26 Jul
2010
26 Jul
'10
5:01 p.m.
Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote:
On 7/26/10 15:56 , Andrew Coppin wrote:
My personal preference would be for NNTP. It seems to handle threading much better. You can easily "kill" threads you're not interested in, and thereafter not bother downloading them. You can use several different client programs. And so on. However, last time I voiced this opinion, people started talking about something called "usenet", which I've never heard of...
Usenet *is* NNTP.
So I'm told. But it appears that some people believe that NNTP *is* Usenet, which is not the case. I use NNTP almost every single day, but I've never seen Usenet in my life...